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Cultural Policy and Branding in Turkey

with Aslı Iğsız

hosted by Chris Gratien and Nicholas Danforth

Countries, much like companies, must seek to present a certain image to the outside world in order to achieve political and economic goals. As our guest, Aslı Iğsız, demonstrates, this self-presentation can take the form of full-fledged marketing campaigns. In this episode, we explore the marketing policies and strategies adopted in Turkey and the broader Middle East during the past two decades and reflect on how they various match, contradict, and intersect with politics in practice.

Aslı Iğsız is Assistant Professor of Culture and Representation in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. (see academia.edu)

Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire
and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu)

Nicholas Danforth is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University studying the history of modern

Iğsız, Aslı. “Palimpsests of Multiculturalism and ‘Museumization of Culture’: The Greek-Turkish Population Exchange Museum as an Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Project.” Comparative Studies in South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies. (Forthcoming August 2015)

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